#Television Industry

Articles (24)

• 🇺🇸 ABC Buys Pitch From Fox; Workaholic Mom Comedy ‘The Dogwood’ Comes From ‘Mom’ Co-Creator Gemma Baker — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Fox is now in the third-party business. The broadcast network’s production arm Fox Entertainment Studios has sold The Dogwood, a multi-camera comedy from Mom co-creator Gemma Baker, to ABC....

  Related: #Business Strategy, #Content Production
• 🇺🇸 ATX TV Festival to Present Inaugural Creative Impact Award to Warren Littlefield, Honor Bill Lawrence With Showrunner Award — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  ATX TV Festival is shining a light on TV leaders at their 2026 fest, set for May 28-31 in Austin, Texas. Bill Lawrence will return with “Bill Lawrence and Friends,” a marquee conversation with the exe...

  Related: #Awards & Recognition, #Creative Collaboration
• 🇺🇸 ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ Lands Big Three-Season Renewal at FX — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The pickup will take the soccer docuseries from Rob Mac and Ryan Reynolds through its eighth season.

  Related: #Sports Documentary, #Community & Culture
• 🇺🇸 Pilots 2026: Preliminary NBC Buzz As Early Frontrunners Start To Emerge — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  2026 may get a spot in broadcast history as the year NBC brought pilot season back. The network this year ordered eight pilots, five dramas and three comedies, the most any broadcast network has done ...

  Related: #Media Strategy, #Content Production
• 🇺🇸 Erika Alexander Eyes Supporting Comedy Emmy for ‘The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins’ (EXCLUSIVE) — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Erika Alexander’s Emmys chances are rising with “The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins.” Variety has learned that veteran comedian Tracy Morgan, who plays the title character — a former football star tr...

  Related: #Awards Strategy, #Representation
• 🇺🇸 Emmy Predictions: Lead Actor (Limited/Movie) — Jason Bateman vs. Himself? Waiting on How He Will Navigate Category Strategy — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and To...

  Related: #Awards Strategy, #Entertainment Analysis
• 🇺🇸 Vince Gilligan Submits ‘Pluribus’ Pilot for Emmys. Will He Finally Win for Writing or Directing? — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  It may be hard to argue that someone with 23 Emmy nominations and four statuettes sitting on his mantle would be considered “overdue.” And yet, in the case of Vince Gilligan, it’s surprisingly easy to...

  Related: #Awards, #Creative Legacy
• 🇺🇸 Carrie Anne Fleming Dies: ‘iZombie’ & ‘Supernatural’ Actress Was 51 — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  Carrie Anne Fleming, a Canadian actress best known for her work in TV shows like iZombie and Supernatural, has died. She was 51. Per reports, Fleming died Feb. 26 in Sidney, British Columbia of compli...

  Related: #Celebrity Death
• 🇺🇸 ‘SNL U.K.’ Is Strongest When Leaning Into What Makes British Comedy Great — but Its Replicated Format Risks Feeling Too American: TV Review — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  It is rare to see British sketch comedy on television. In fact, British comedy on television is so rare that the genre has been deemed “at risk” in recent years. So, naturally, you would have thought ...

  Related: #British Comedy, #Cultural Adaptation
• 🇺🇸 Eric Overmyer Dies: ‘Bosch’ Creator, ‘Treme’ Co-Creator & ‘Homicide’ Writer-Producer Was 74 — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Eric Overmyer, a veteran TV writer-producer and playwright known for his work on Homicide: Life On the Street, Law & Order, The Wire, Treme, Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, died March 16 after an illness. He...

  Related: #Obituary
• 🇺🇸 First Legal Framework Dedicated To International TV Co-Pros Set To Be Unveiled At Series Mania — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  The first-ever legal framework dedicated to international TV co-productions will be unveiled at next week’s Series Mania. Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset will attend the Lille confab ...

  Related: #Legal Framework
• 🇺🇸 NBCUniversal TV Executives Talk Shorter Seasons, Pilots & Competition — SXSW — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  Shorter seasons have reshaped the television landscape, controversially so. A trio of NBCUniversal development executives has mixed opinions. Financially, a longer season is a better model, said Vivia...

  Related: #Streaming Competition
• 🇺🇸 Rafe Spall, Bérénice Bejo, Steven Moffat and Bryan Elsley Head Shows at Series Mania’s 2026 Buyers Upfront — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  Rafe Spall (“Trying, “The English”), Oscar nominee Bérénice Bejo (“The Artist”), “Sherlock” co-creator and showrunner Steven Moffat and “Skins” co-creator Bryan Elsley head shows at the 2026 Series Ma...

  Related: #Entertainment Events
• 🇺🇸 From Gnomes To Number 10: Series Mania Unveils Dramas Tipped For International Success & To Be Presented At Its Buyers Upfront — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  Buyers are going to get a first look at ten international drama series that Series Mania has identified as global hits-in-the-making, with gnomes, Nazis, gamers, fertility clinics and the British PM a...

  Related: #International Distribution
• 🇺🇸 Series Mania Highlights Global TV Trends: ‘The Testaments’ Opens Proceedings & Belgium, Poland & UK Make A Strong Showing — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  The world premiere of Hulu’s The Testaments is the curtain-raiser to this year’s Series Mania. “The whole team is coming, so that’s very exciting, we will have (creator) Bruce Miller and Chase Infinit...

  Related: #International Festivals
• 🇺🇸 Broadcast TV Scorecard 2026: What’s Renewed, Canceled and Still in Limbo — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  Keep up to date with which series will return for the 2026-27 season and which ones are on the way out.

  Related: #Program Status
• 🇺🇸 Gary Dontzig, Emmy-Winning Writer and Producer on ‘Murphy Brown,’ Dies at 79 — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  He co-wrote the show’s rebuttal to Dan Quayle and also worked on ‘Suddenly Susan,’ ‘State of Grace,’ ‘Becker’ and ‘Hannah Montana.’

  Related: #Obituary
• 🇺🇸 Bob Rosenfarb Dies: ‘Who’s The Boss?’, ‘Step By Step’ Writer-Producer Was 74 — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  Bob Rosenfarb, the writer-producer behind 1990s hit sitcoms Who’s The Boss? and Step By Step, died Tuesday, March 3, his family has announced. He was 74. A cause and place of death were not immediatel...

  Related: #Obituary
• 🇺🇸 Gary Dontzig, Writer and Producer on ‘Murphy Brown,’ Dies at 79 — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  Gary Dontzig, a writer and producer on the hit CBS sitcom “Murphy Brown,” died Feb. 23 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 79. His longtime writing partner, Steven Peterman, confirme...

  Related: #Death & Legacy, #Career Achievement, #Advocacy
• 🇺🇸 Gary Dontzig Dies: ‘Murphy Brown’ Writer-Producer Who Won Three Emmys Was 79 — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  Gary Dontzig, who won three Emmys as a writer-producer of Murphy Brown and also worked on Becker, Suddenly Susan, State of Grace, Hannah Montana and other series, has died. He was 79. His longtime wri...

  Related: #Obituaries, #Comedy Writing
• 🇺🇸 Actor Awards Open With ‘Abbott Elementary’ Sketch, Kristen Bell Singing & Tried-And-True “I’m An Actor” Bit — 02/03/2026 [USA]

  The Netflix-streaming Actor Awards opened with a pre-recorded scripted bit featuring the Abbott Elementary ensemble in character talking about the nominees of the night — from Sinners to The White Lot...

  Related: #Entertainment Awards, #Celebrity Culture
• 🇺🇸 Paramount and Warner Bros. Could Be a TV Studio Colossus — But Uncertainty Abounds — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  More than 100 productions fall under the two companies’ various studios.

  Related: #Media Mergers, #Corporate Restructuring, #Content Production, #Streaming vs. Traditional TV
• 🇺🇸 Bobby J. Brown Dies: ‘The Wire’ & ‘We Own This City’ Actor Was 62 — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  Bobby J. Brown, the actor who played Officer Bobby Brown on The Wire, has died. He was 62. The actor’s daughter said that he died on Tuesday of smoke inhalation when he was caught in a barn fire in Ma...

  Related: #Celebrity Death, #Tragedy
• 🇬🇧 Eric Dane, Grey’s Anatomy and Euphoria star, dies aged 53 — 20/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Dane died on Thursday afternoon, 10 months after he revealed he had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a type of motor neurone disease</p><p>Eric Dane, an actor in hit shows E...

  Related: #Celebrity Health, #ALS Awareness